Jeane Kirkpatrick
Diplomat
1926-11-19
Quotes by Jeane Kirkpatrick
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History is a better guide than good intentions.
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History is a better guide than good intentions.
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Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
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There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
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The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.
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And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.
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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
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We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
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